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There's nothing more liberating about starting with something that is not written. You pretty much create the history of that character and that character's life story.
IronE Singleton
Life
Character
History
You
Nothing
Liberating
Pretty
About
Something
More
Life Story
Written
The History Of
Story
Create
Much
Starting
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J. L. Austin
History
Word
Back
Latin
Pretty
Pictures
Come
How
Very
Models
Done
Going
Often
The History Of
Happen
Commonly
Things
Things Happen
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
History
Humanity
Language
Invention
Before
Extraordinary
Everything
Possible
Share
Most
Makes
Came
The History Of
Which
The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Truth
History
Science
Example
Rich
Sets
Touch
Pursuit
Developed
New
Ideas
Another
New Truth
The History Of
Separate
Techniques
Bringing
Two
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
Jacques Rivette
History
Cinema
Saw
No Idea
Above
Idea
Feet
Know
Left
Six
The History Of
Happened
Theater
Craziest
Ground
Floating
Film
Twin
Twin Peaks
Peaks
In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically.
James Bobin
History
Comedy
Seen
TV
Very
The History Of
Children
Us
Much
Show
England
English
Thing
Muppet
Treasures
Basically
Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
James Dobson
Freedom
Family
History
You
Man
Woman
Marriage
Culture
World
Every
Other
Virtually
Considered
Ways
Married
One-Man
Between
Know
Behave
Committed
The History Of
Cannot
Mean
Each
Homosexuals
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
James Earl Jones
Time
History
See
Point
Point Of View
Knowing
Without
Historical
Middle
The History Of
Being
Happened
Which
Theater
Land
View
Explosive
Now
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
James Mark Baldwin
History
Matter
Attaching
Self
Development
Subject
Subject Matter
Personal
The History Of
Being
Psychology
Meaning
Conscious
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
James Monroe
History
Happy
People
Example
Other
Ancient
Rapid
Gigantic
Find
Prosperous
Look
Modern
Nations
The History Of
Growth
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
James Surowiecki
Buy
History
Business
Opportunities
Internet
Google
Down
Record
Netflix
Take
Excite
Part
Mere
Missed
Over
Major
Blockbuster
Dollars
Labels
Than
Refused
The History Of
Acquire
Turned
Fifty
Less
Series
Apple
Million
Million Dollars
Chance
I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.
Jason Aaron
History
Indian
Indians
Always
Been
American
Movement
The History Of
Plains
Fascinated
I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history of Formula One.
Jean-Eric Vergne
Family
History
Honoured
Prestigious
Joining
Part
Feel
Most
Becoming
Ferrari
Very
The History Of
Formula
Formula One
Team
The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.
Jean-Luc Godard
History
Cinema
Made
Medium
Easy
See
Only
Since
Up
The History Of
Where
After
Happened
Appears
Images
I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.
Jeb Hensarling
History
System
Proposition
Greater
Been
Than
American
The History Of
Mankind
Dedicated
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
Jeff Hawkins
History
You
World
Big
Understanding
Assumption
Our
Our World
Intuitive
Wrong
Obstacles
Look
Underlying
The History Of
Them
Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Love
History
Entertainment
Business
People
Remember
Impossible
Brilliant
Somewhere
First
Everyone
Later
Entertainment Business
Exactly
Exactly What
Someone
Something
Fired
Studio
Between
Days
Most
Said
Got
Doing
Years
Improbable
Afraid
The History Of
Eight
Successful
Disney
Successful People
Who
Started
Two
I became known as the guy who did the worst show in the history of television.
Jerry Van Dyke
History
Worst
Television
Guy
Known
Became
Did
The History Of
Show
Who
I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
Jesse Williams
Work
Myself
Home
Me
History
People
School
Parents
Gave
Define
System
Horrible
About
More
School System
Learn
Got
How
Up
Than
Did
The History Of
Grew
Them
Really
Function
Ever
The truth we are teaching is that every contribution in the history of the planet came from blonde people. It's not true, and it's destructive, and people are getting killed long term as a result. People don't believe that we deserve it.
Jesse Williams
Truth
History
People
Result
Long
Believe
Every
Destructive
True
Long-Term
Term
Came
Blonde
Contribution
Getting
The History Of
Planet
Teaching
Deserve
I don't need to speak with my colleagues in the national side to know what kind of player Messi is. He's one of the best players in the history of football and very difficult to stop.
Jesus Navas
Best
History
Speak
National
Difficult
Side
Colleagues
Kind
Football
He
Know
Messi
Very
Stop
The History Of
Player
Players
Need
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
Jill Lepore
War
History
World
Progress
First
Betterment
Idea
Between
First World
First World War
West
Dominated
Human
The History Of
Human History
View
Notion
Enlightenment
World View
World War
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
Jo Beverley
History
Classes
Particular
Practices
Years
Five
Childbirth
Taught
The History Of
Interest
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.
Jo Nesbo
History
You
Culture
Experience
Reading
Hidden
Visiting
Countries
Leave
Go
Getting
The History Of
Place
Then
Start
Treasures
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
Jodie Foster
History
Appreciation
Hurt
Understanding
Painting
Having
He
Knowing
Came
The History Of
Where
Your
Paint
Painter
Uses
Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.
Joe Greene
Great
History
Joy
Super
Super Bowl
About
Great One
Winning
Point
Bowl
Obviously
Felt
Came
Going
The History Of
Where
Pittsburgh
Us
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